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Police Act,1888

Act No : 3


Section : CONSTITUTION OF POLICE FORCES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

SECTION 02: CONSTITUTION OF POLICE FORCES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Madras District Police Act, 1859,the Indian Police Act, 1861-,the Bombay District Police Act, 1890 , or any Act relating to the police in any Presidency-town, the Central Government may. by notification, in the Official Gazette, create a special police district embracing parts of two or more6[States], and extend to every part of the said district the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to 7[a State] specified in the notification.

(2) Subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, members of the said police force shall have within every part of any6[State] of which any part is included in the said district, the powers, duties, privileges and liabilities which, as police officers, they have in their own6[State].

(3) Any member of the said police force whom the Central Government shall generally or specially empowers to act under this sub-section may, subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, exercise within any6[State] any part of which is included in the said district any of the powers of the officer in charge of a police station in the6[State], and when so exercising any such powers, shall, subject to any such order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an officer in charge of a police station discharging the functions of such an officer within the limits of his station.

(4) A part of a6[ State] included in the said district shall not by reason of that inclusion cease for the purposes of any enactment relating to police to be part of that6[State].]



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